NAME

POE::Component::Client::FTP - Implements an FTP client POE Component

SYNOPSIS

use POE::Component::Client::FTP;

POE::Component::Client::FTP->spawn ( Alias => 'ftp', Username => 'test', Password => 'test', RemoteAddr => 'localhost', Events => [ qw( authenticated put_connected put_error put_closed get_connected get_data get_done size ) ] );

# we are authenticated sub authenticated { $poe_kernel->post('ftp', 'command', 'args'); }

# data connection is ready for data sub put_connected { my ($status, $line, $param) = @_[ARG0..ARG3];

open FILE, "/etc/passwd" or die $!;
$poe_kernel->post('ftp', 'put_data', $_) while (<FILE>);
close FILE;
$poe_kernel->post('ftp', 'put_close');
}

# something bad happened sub put_error { my ($error, $param) = @_[ARG0,ARG1];

warn "ERROR: '$error' occured while trying to STOR '$param'";
}

# data connection closed sub put_closed { my ($param) = @_[ARG0]; }

# file on the way... sub get_connected { my ($filename) = @_[ARG0]; }

# getting data from the file... sub get_data { my ($data, $filename) = @_[ARG0,ARG1];

}

# and its done sub get_done { my ($filename) = @_[ARG0]; }

# response to a size command sub size { my ($code, $size, $filename) = @_[ARG0,ARG1,ARG2];

print "$filename was $size";
}

$poe_kernel->run();

Latest version and samples script can be found at: http://www.wush.net/poe/ftp

DESCRIPTION

Client module for FTP

CAVEATS

Untested.

METHODS

spawn

Alias - session name

Username - account username

Password - account password

ConnectionMode - FTP_PASSIVE (default) or FTP_ACTIVE

Transfermode - FTP_MANUAL (default), FTP_ASCII, or FTP_BINARY If set to FTP_ASCII OR FTP_BINARY, will use specified before every file transfer. If not set, you are responsible to manually post the mode. NOTE: THIS IS UNIMPLEMENTED AT THE TIME

Filters - a hashref matching signals with POE::Filter's If unspecified, reasonable selections will be made. Only filter currently useful is for ls, which parses common ls responses. See samples/list.pl for example.

LocalAddr - interface to listen on in active mode

LocalPort - port to listen on in active mode

RemoteAddr - ftp server

RemotePort - ftp port

Timeout - unused

BlockSize - sets the recieve buffer size. see BUGS

Events - events you are interested in receiving. See OUTPUT.

INPUT

cd [path]

cdup

delete [filename]

dir

get [filename]

ls

mdtm [filename]

mkdir [dir name]

mode [active passive]

noop

pwd

rmdir [dir name]

site [command]

size [filename]

type [A|I]

quit

put_data

After receiving a put_connected event you can post put_data events to send data to the server.

put_close

Closes the data connection. put_closed will be emit when connection is flushed and closed.

OUTPUT

Output is for "simple" ftp events is simply "event". Error cases are "event_error". ARG0 is the numeric code, ARG1 is the text response, and ARG2 is the parameter you made the call with. This is useful since commands such as size do not remind you of this in the server response.

Output for "complex" or data socket ftp commands is creates "event_connection" upon socket connection, "event_data" for each item of data, and "event_done" when all data is done being sent.

Output from put is "put_error" for an error creating a connection or "put_connected". If you receive "put_connected" you can post "put_data" commands to the component to have it write. A "put_done" command closes and writes. Upon completion, a "put_closed" or "put_error" is posted back to you.

SEE ALSO

the POE manpage, the perl manpage, the Net::FTP module, RFC 959

TODO

High level functions

High level put and get functions which would accept filenames or filehandles. This may simplify creation of an ftp client or batch script.

Improve local queueing of send data

More sample scripts and documentation

Eventually a graphical ftp client might be interesting. Please email me if you decide to attempt this.

More complete test cases

"Meta" functions

Allow get/put functions to be given filenames or filehandles instead of requiring the calling script to do standard file io in handlers.

Implement TransferMode setting

BUGS

BlockSize

To do the blocksize, I simply rely on the BlockSize parameter in the Wheel::ReadWrite. Although it is honored for receiving data, sending data is done as elements in the array. Possibly change Driver::SysRW or submit to the Wheel in proper sizes. Do not count on receive blocks coming in proper sizes.

TransferMode

FTP_ASCII and FTP_BINARY are not implemented. Use the 'type' command.

Active transfer mode

PORT does not know what ip address it is listening on. It gets 0.0.0.0. Use LocalAddr in the constructor and it all works fine.

AUTHORS & COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2002 Michael Ching. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

cpanm POE::Component::Client::FTP

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install POE::Component::Client::FTP